Word: rhinelander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Surprises Concluded" Just eleven months ago, when the Reichstag last met, the Saturday Surprise hurled by Hitler was to send grey-green columns of Reichswehr soldiers goose-stepping into the Rhineland, from which they were barred not only by the imposed Treaty of Versailles but by the voluntary Locarno Pact (TIME, Dec.14, 1925)This Surprise-of-1936 the British refused to take tragically, pointing out that while it was a flagrant violation of treaties, nevertheless the Rhineland was German soil. Bereft of British help, the loud fury of the French had soon to subside. The Surprise-of-1937 last week...
...German violations of the Treaty of Versailles but have compounded with Adolf Hitler by signing an Anglo-German Treaty authorizing Berlin to build a potent Reich Navy (TIME, June 24, 1935). Neither the British nor the French replied with force - the only language the Nazis under stand - when the Rhineland was remilitarized by Dictator Hitler in flagrant violation of the particularly sacred "Spirit of Locarno" (TIME, March 16). Finally Catholic King Leopold, whose sister may one day be the Queen of Catholic Italy, has found that the Franco-Belgian Alliance of 1920 has now become an alliance of Belgium with...
Whether written or unwritten it is almost certain that Hitler and Mussolini have some sort of an agreement, he averred, by which Hitler was able to move into the Rhineland while Mussolini attacked Ethiopia, and now the two are unquestionably sending supplies through Fascist Portugal to the rebels in Spain, especially airplanes, which have become the deciding factor in the conflict...
Tuesday September twenty-ninth nineteen-thirty six! From a little farmhouse in Alsace, just a stone's throw from the German Rhineland which Dictator Hitler has so recently fortified, comes this scene of European fear and trembling. It is the dining-room of Pierre Soubriquet, an Alsatian farmer like many of his kind. Around him are seated his wife, Adelaide, and their four young children. M. Soubriquet is speaking...
Anti-aircraft guns, sans doute! Herr Hitler has fortified the Rhineland you know...